Sep 10, 2023

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Richard S. Ascough, ed., Christ Groups and Associations: Foundational Essays (Baylor University Press)
Timothy A. Brookins

Thomas E. Boomershine, First-Century Gospel Storytellers and Audiences: The Gospels as Performance Literature (Cascade)
Lee A. Johnson

Evangelia G. Dafni, ed., Divine Kingdom and Kingdoms of Men / Gottesreich und Reiche der Menschen: Studies on the Theology of the Septuagint Volume II / Studien zur Theologie der Septuaginta Band II (Mohr Siebeck)
Leonardo Pessoa da Silva Pinto

Stephanie Dalley, The City of Babylon: A History, c. 2000 BC–AD 116 (Cambridge University Press)
Rannfrid I. Lasine Thelle

Nijay K. Gupta, The Writer: A Guide to Research, Writing, and Publishing in Biblical Studies (Cascade)
Sandie Gravett

Dru Johnson, Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic Approach to the Old and New Testaments (Cambridge University Press)
Jaco Gericke

Anna Rogozhina, “And from His Side Came Blood and Milk”: The Martyrdom of St Philotheus of Antioch in Coptic Egypt and Beyond (Gorgias)
T. C. Schmidt

Jens Schröter, Benjamin A. Edsall, and Joseph Verheyden, eds., Jews and Christians: Parting Ways in the First Two Centuries CE? Reflections on the Gains and Losses of a Model (De Gruyter)
Terence L. Donaldson

Marcus Mordecai Schwartz, Rewriting the Talmud: The Fourth Century Origins of Bavil [sic] Rosh Hoshanah (Mohr Siebeck)
Joshua Schwartz

David I. Yoon, A Discourse Analysis of Galatians and the New Perspective on Paul (Brill)
Ross D. Harmon

Sep 7, 2023

Free eBook: Proverbs for You

The Good Book Company is offering a digital version of Proverbs for You by Kathleen Nielson in exchange for an email address here.

HT: Antony Billington

Sep 6, 2023

Matthew 18

Ian Paul has a good post on Matthew 18 here.

Sep 5, 2023

Archaeological Evidence for the Babylonian Exile

Leen Ritmyer has a nice post here related to the archaeological evidence for the Babylonian Exile drawn from a display at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem. This summer, I was able to visit this museum and view this display. It is very well done.

Sep 4, 2023

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Pauline Allen and Neil Bronwen, Greek and Latin Letters in Late Antiquity: The Christianisation of a Literary Form (Cambridge University Press)
Mark Vessey

Joshua W. Jipp, The Messianic Theology of the New Testament (Eerdmans)
Mark A. Matson

UnChan Jung, A Tale of Two Churches: Distinctive Social and Economic Dynamics at Thessalonica and Corinth (De Gruyter)
Elizabeth R. Davis

Tat-siong Benny Liew and Shelly Matthews, eds., Race and Biblical Studies: Antiracism Pedagogy for the Classroom (SBL Press)
Ki-Eun Jang

James Alfred Loader, Proverbs Volume II: Proverbs 10–15 (Peeters)

Thomas Krüger

F. Rachel Magdalene, Cornelia Wunsch, and Bruce Wells, Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts (Eisenbrauns)
Hans Neumann

Benjamin J. Noonan, Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicon of Language Contact (Eisenbrauns)
Jonathan Thambyrajah

Dempsey Rosales Acosta, Introducción a los evangelicos canónicos: Un compendio para la formación bíblica de adultos (Editorial Verbo Divino)
Sergio Zapata Grajales

Sep 1, 2023

Free Logos Resources for September

Logos is offering these three freebies this month: the book Scripture: A Guide to the Perplexed by William Lamb, the ebook The Doctrines of Grace by James Montgomery Boice and Philip Graham Ryken, and the audio book The Christian in Complete Armour: Spiritual Arms for the Battle by William Gurnall. You can get these free resources and also purchase others at significant discounts here, here, and here.

Aug 29, 2023

Matthew 16

Here and here are two posts on Matthew 16 that are helpful in different ways. The first is by Ian Paul on taking up our cross and the second by Mark Hoffman that provides a few links for a general study of the chapter.

Aug 27, 2023

The Latest Issue of the Review of Biblical Literature

The latest issue of Review of Biblical Literature is out. Reviews can be accessed by clicking the links below but unfortunately you must be a SBL member to read them.

Andrew J. Byers, John and the Others: Jewish Relations, Christian Origins, and the Sectarian Hermeneutic (Baylor University Press)
Nicola E. Hayward

Paul S. Evans, Sennacherib and the War of 1812: Disputed Victory in the Assyrian Campaign of 701 BCE in Light of Military History (T&T Clark)
Dan’el Kahn

Lisbeth S. Fried, Nehemiah: A Commentary (Sheffield Phoenix)
Louis C. Jonker

Kelly R. Iverson, Performing Early Christian Literature: Audience Experience and Interpretation of the Gospels (Cambridge University Press)
Pieter J. J. Botha

Bin Kang, Honor and Shame in 1 Samuel 1–7 (Langham Monographs)
Koowon Kim

Carmen Palmer, Converts in the Dead Sea Scrolls: The Gēr and Mutable Ethnicity (Brill)
Robert Kugler

Ibrahim Saweros, ed., Another Athanasius: Four Sahidic Homilies Attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria; Two Homilies on Michael the Archangel, the Homily on Luke 11:5–9 and the Homily on Pentecost (Peeters)
David Kneip

Erin Villareal, Jealousy in Context: The Social Implications of Emotions in the Hebrew Bible (Eisenbrauns)
Anthony I. Lipscomb